62nd Annual Awards
Outer Critics Circle
Announce
2011-12
Season Nominees
“Nice
Work If You Can Get It” Heads the List with 9 Nominations
followed
by
“Newsies”
& “Once” with 7 Nominations
The
First Broadway/Off-Broadway Award Nominees of the Season!
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and
commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national
publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April 23, 2012)
its nominees for the 2011-12 season in 24 categories. Broadway stars Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas presided over the (11AM) announcement ceremony
underwritten by Mark D. Friedman, SVP at Halstead Property LLC at Manhattan’s
Friars Club.
In addition, the OCC honored The Public Theater on its 50th Anniversary for
presenting free theater at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Alumni of
Shakespeare in the Park and Public Theater productions Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
presented the special award to The Public’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham.
Celebrating its 62nd season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field
of theater, the Outer Critics Circle is an association with members affiliated
with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, websites, radio and television
stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad. The winners of the
following categories will be announced on Monday, May 14th and the annual
awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 24th (4PM) at the legendary
Sardi’s Restaurant.
Outer
Critics Circle
2011-2012
Award Nominations
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
The Lyons
One Man, Two Guvnors
Seminar
Stick Fly
OUTSTANDING NEW
BROADWAY MUSICAL
Bonnie & Clyde
Newsies
Once
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
OUTSTANDING NEW
OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Blood and Gifts
The School for Lies
Sons of the Prophet
Tribes
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY
MUSICAL
Death Takes a Holiday
Lucky Guy
Play It Cool
Queen of the Mist
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A
MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Once
Queen of the Mist
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Bonnie & Clyde
Death Takes a Holiday
Newsies
Queen of the Mist
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL
OF A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
The Best Man
Death of a Salesman
The Lady From Dubuque
Private Lives
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL
OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Carrie
Evita
Follies
Porgy and Bess
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
OF A PLAY
Mark Brokaw The
Lyons
David Cromer Tribes
Nicholas Hytner One Man,
Two Guvnors
Mike Nichols Death of a
Salesman
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Jeff Calhoun Newsies
Michael Grandage Evita
Kathleen Marshall Nice
Work If You Can Get It
John Tiffany Once
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Rob Ashford Evita
Christopher Gattelli Newsies
Steven Hoggett Once
Kathleen Marshall Nice
Work If You Can Get It
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Bob Crowley Once
Derek McLane Nice Work If
You Can Get It
Christopher Oram Evita
George Tsypin Spider-Man:
Turn Off the Dark
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Gregg Barnes Follies
Eiko Ishioka Spider-Man:
Turn Off the Dark
William Ivey Long Don’t
Dress for Dinner
Martin Pakledinaz Nice
Work If You Can Get It
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Neil Austin Evita
Donald Holder Spider-Man:
Turn Off the Dark
Brian MacDevitt Death of
a Salesman
Hugh Vanstone Ghost: The
Musical
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
James Corden One Man, Two
Guvnors
Santino Fontana Sons of
the Prophet
Russell Harvard Tribes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Death
of a Salesman
Hamish Linklater The
School for Lies
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Tracie Bennett End of the
Rainbow
Tyne Daly Master Class
Linda Lavin The Lyons
Nicole Ari Parker A
Streetcar Named Desire
Laila Robins The Lady
From Dubuque
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein Follies
Raúl Esparza Leap of
Faith
Jeremy Jordan Newsies
Steve Kazee Once
Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jan Maxwell Follies
Marin Mazzie Carrie
Audra McDonald Porgy and
Bess
Cristin Milioti Once
Kelli O’Hara Nice Work If
You Can Get It
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Will Brill Tribes
Tom Edden One Man, Two
Guvnors
Andrew Garfield Death of
a Salesman
James Earl Jones The Best
Man
Jefferson Mays Blood and
Gifts
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A
PLAY
Joanna Gleason Sons of
the Prophet
Spencer Kayden Don’t
Dress for Dinner
Angela Lansbury The Best
Man
Judith Light Other Desert
Cities
Daphne Rubin-Vega A
Streetcar Named Desire
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A
MUSICAL
Phillip Boykin Porgy and
Bess
Andrew Keenan-Bolger Newsies
Michael McGrath Nice Work
If You Can Get It
Patrick Page Spider-Man:
Turn Off the Dark
Chris Sullivan Nice Work
If You Can Get It
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A
MUSICAL
Jayne Houdyshell Follies
Judy Kaye Nice Work If
You Can Get It
Rebecca Luker Death Takes
a Holiday
Da’Vine Joy Randolph Ghost:
The Musical
Melissa Van Der Schyff Bonnie
& Clyde
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Judy Gold My Life as a
Sitcom
David Greenspan The Patsy
Denis O’Hare An Iliad
Stephen Spinella An Iliad
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Robert Askins Hand to God
Gabe McKinley CQ/CX
Erika Sheffer Russian
Transport
Jeff Talbot The
Submission
Nominations Talley for 3 or more:
9 - Nice Work If You Can Get It; 7 - Newsies, Once; 5 – Follies,
Death of a Salesman, Evita, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; 4 - One Man, Two
Guvnors, Porgy and Bess, Tribes; 3 - The Best Man, Bonnie & Clyde, Death
Takes a Holiday, The Lyons, Queen of the Mist, Sons of the Prophet;
NOTE: The Nominating Committee attended all of
this season’s Broadway productions prior to the OCC Award cut-off date. “Venus
in Fur,” “Clybourne Park,” "Peter and the Starcatcher” and “Other Desert
Cities” were considered in previous seasons, but new cast members were taken
into consideration for this season.
2011-12
Outer Critics Circle Executive / Nominating Committee
Simon
Saltzman (President)
Mario Fratti (Vice-President) Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding
Secretary)
Stanley L. Cohen
(Treasurer) Glenn Loney (Historian
& Member-at-Large)
Rosalind Friedman (Recording
Secretary) and
Aubrey Reuben, Thomás Gentile & Harry Haun (Members-at-Large)
Peter
Cromarty
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